Fiesta salad with baked chicken, pineapples and mushrooms

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a Fiesta salad with chicken and pickled mushrooms? Prepare the ingredients. You can take a whole chicken breast or already cut into fillets, it does not matter. My mushrooms are pickled (champignons), but fresh ones will do, they will need to be fried. Boil the eggs beforehand. Flip the pineapples on a sieve to drain the excess liquid.

2. Step 2:

   

   To start, cook the chicken. For this salad, the chicken can be boiled in water or steamed, fried, but I like baked most of all. How to bake a chicken? Season the chicken breast with salt and pepper, add your favorite spices (everything is simple for me — paprika and dried basil) and a couple of tablespoons of olive oil. Coat the chicken meat with all this, then wrap it in foil.

3. Step 3:

   

   Bake the breast until tender (at 180 ° C for about 30 minutes, depending on the size of the breast), the main thing is not to over-dry it! I check the readiness like this — I pierce the breast in the thickest place with a thin knife or skewer. Transparent juice flows — that's it, the chicken is ready, you can take it out of the oven. Cool it down.

4. Step 4:

   

   So that the chicken cools down faster, I cut it into small pieces still hot (I remove the skin).

5. Step 5:

   

   Now you can start slicing. Cut mushrooms into plates, onions into cubes. Mix the onion with the mushrooms.

6. Step 6:

   

   Peel the cucumber and cut into cubes. The skin, if it is not rough, not damaged and not bitter, does not need to be cut off.

7. Step 7:

   

   Boil hard boiled eggs. How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned. Separate the yolks from the whites. Cut the whites into cubes, leave the yolk, it will be needed for decoration.

9. Step 8:

   

   I made a portioned salad, so I laid out everything in layers, but this salad will not be any worse if all the ingredients are cut and mixed together. So, the first layer is chicken, tamp it well and smear it with mayonnaise (you need quite a bit of mayonnaise, due to pineapples, cucumber, mushrooms, the salad itself is already juicy.)

10. Step 9:

    

    The second layer is egg white, and again a little mayonnaise.

11. Step 10:

    

    The third layer is pineapples (do not add mayonnaise). If you have rings, then pre-cut them into pieces.

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    The fourth layer is cucumber and a little mayonnaise.

13. Step 12:

    

    The fifth layer is mushrooms with onions. Again, a little mayonnaise. Press all the layers well with a spoon so that the surface is leveled.

14. Step 13:

    

    Rub the egg yolk on top. Carefully remove the salad from the ring and serve it to the table.

15. Step 14:

    

    Bon appetit!